(Commentary) “I think we underestimate Facebook’s power constantly,” Siva Vaidhyanathan, a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, said. “It’s really hard for human beings to picture in their head the actual size and influence of the platform. Something like one out of three people use the thing – it’s like nothing we’ve encountered in human history.”
(Audio) The chair of UVA Orthopedics joined the show to talk about how sports are returning during this pandemic.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a Facebook expert at the University of Virginia, said the company again proved itself incapable of effectively snuffing out dangerous misinformation last week when it failed to remove postings by right-wing militia organizers urging supporters with rifles to converge on Kenosha, Wisconsin. “Facebook’s biggest problem has always been enforcement,” he said. “Even when it creates reasonable policies that seem well-meaning, it gets defeated by its own scale. So I am not optimistic that this will be terribly effective.”
With this new award, Vibrent Health has partnered with several academic and industry organizations that will contribute machine learning, technology innovation, research expertise and emerging cybersecurity approaches to the implementation of the digital health technology platform for All of Us. Partners include the University of Virginia,.
The University of Virginia is welcoming students back to campus, but as Sandy Hausman reports, administrators are warning of dire consequences if those students don’t follow public health guidelines.
The University of Virginia has cracked down on health policy violations with the help of an online portal that allows people to report social behaviors that could promote the spread of COVID-19.
The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library is now offering better access to materials from the University of Virginia. This will make the University's collections available to the community through JMRL while the UVA Libraries remain closed to the public.
In-person classes are set to begin at the University of Virginia next week. Ahead of that, all students were asked to take a test to see if they had COVID-19. On Grounds, there have been 174 cases since Aug. 17, which is up 19 from Wednesday.
At the Charlottesville School Board’s final meeting before the 2020-21 school year begins, policies were finalized and committees were formed to keep students safe and prepared for the future of learning. The board also discussed how it will determine plans for the second quarter of the school year. A committee of parents, students, teachers, two board members, and representatives from the schools and the University of Virginia gets that responsibility.
The project is called “On These Grounds” and its first phase is being supported by a two-year, $550,000 grant the Mellon Foundation gave to three schools. Teams from the University of Virginia, Georgetown University and Michigan State University will be working together to develop an online model to help expand researchers’ understanding of the lives and experiences of the enslaved.
Marking the beginning of an unusual – and controversial – semester, University of Virginia students and their families were in good spirits Thursday as first-years started moving into dormitories. The students are moving in at staggered dates and times in a bid by the University to reduce human contact and the potential spread of COVID-19.
The schools that top Money’s rankings boast “outstanding results at an affordable price.” The top 25 schools on the list include a handful of East Coast institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Duke University, University of Virginia, Yale University, Washington and Lee University, Harvard University, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Jefferson Madison Regional Library has teamed up with UVA to make more books available to the public. UVA Library’s entire circulation collection will be available to check out through JMRL at no extra charge.
On Friday, UVA officially announced that it will have reduced seating capacity for home sporting events due to regulations brought on by COVID-19. The decision follows guidelines provided by state officials.
would pay his dues at a software company and only later try to find a job that combined computer science and theater, his twin passions. But by the end of the month, the pandemic forced performing arts venues across the country to shutter. “I saw the writing on the wall that this was my chance to jump in and do it now,” he said.
Republicans pulled out all the stops at their convention to convince female voters that President Donald Trump cares about their interests, even pledging to put a woman on the moon with polls showing he has lost ground with women as their concerns about him intensify. But the argument that Trump will keep women and their families safer than Biden may fail to resonate because women recognize that Trump is the nation’s leader now, said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
P&G, one of the top advertising spenders in the United States, is racing against Clorox and Lysol maker Reckitt to plug home cleaning brands at restaurants and other businesses. “The reason why P&G wants to do this is because … it can produce free publicity,” said Kimberly Whitler, an associate professor of business at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a former P&G marketing executive. “It’s a new outlet where consumers are not necessarily thinking about P&G products, and suddenly they’re seeing them there.”
Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball Thursday shifted Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s re-election bid to its “leans Democratic” category, indicating that Republicans are less likely to win it. Sabato, a professor at the University of Virginia, is among a handful of experts widely recognized as an expert in predicting the outcome of political races nationally.
New Jersey remain unchanged in new ratings for House races published this morning by Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. The Sabato/UVA group is one of the top non-partisan handicappers of elections in the U.S. – think of them as the Standard & Poor’s of political campaign ratings.